Fishing near Westwood in Norfolk County, MA

Check Prices

• senkos blk/blu flake
• weedless yamamaoto bright green crayfish with a squid-like skirt on the front.
• Fat body rubber craw, watermelon candy color
• Little Cleo Spoon in Copper and Silver
• Bacon on the bottom. 1 ounce sinker.
• Bacon on the bottom. 5/0 hook, one-ounce egg sinker.
• Bacon. 5/0 hook, 1-ounce egg sinker
• Corn/catfish bait
  (see the trip details and other hotspots for more info)
• bait
• booyeah frog

Live Bait (Other) Check Prices

• Fished a shiner two feet below a float.
• Large fat night crawlers, shinners were the best but also deep crank bait
• worm
• slug
• Floating seaworms. 3 ft. leader. 2 worms per baitholder. Glow stick on bobber with 2oz weight under bobber.
• Floating seaworms at night. Two on a bait holder hook. 3 foot mono leader. Giant bobber with a 2 oz weight rigged underneath and a big glow stick rubber banded to the bobber.
• cauth the 4 lb on shiner, and the others on rubber worms
• Chartreuse Powerbait
• Shiner one foot below float.
• SEAWORMS

Tube Check Prices

• tube dark...
• use small tube
• 10" on a tube
  10-1/2" on inline spinner
  14-1/2" 1lb 5oz on inline spinner
• white tube
• 3 Bass in the 6 and 7 inch Variety
• Grayish Blue with flakes 1/8weighted hook
• Weighted tubes, spoon, and rubber worms
• minitube flourescent
• Flippin a Blue&Black tube with a 1/2oz tungsten weight in and around the pads.

Creature Check Prices

• Zoom Brush Hog (6") in Watermelon Seed. Texas-rigged with 3/8 oz tungsten weight and 3/0 Gamakatsu EWG hook.
• GY Kreature bait, green with specks., see picture
• Brown with purple flecks, first time using them.
• Zoom Super Hog - Candy color
• Gary Yamomoto Kreature, red and black, or green with black specks...on the top, twitched through the weeds, slime, or open water. Sometimes I let it sink to the bottom and twitch it slightly. The one that got away was of course, huge. I'm bummin'.
• Lightly weighted Kreature drifting in current.
• Gary Yamamato Kreature bait 4" green w/ black and purple
• squarebill crankbait and a shakeyhead rigged 4" green pit-boss.
• Black and Blue as usual
• Colorful Grub and a Pitboss

Minnow Check Prices

• 3 to 4 foot of line on a pop up flag
• small minnows, pretty active
• minnows and night crawlers and one on a crank bait. They were suspended up high today so all you had to do was drop the lure or bait with no weight and just sit there and wait for them to gulp it down
• shiners
• medium-sized shiner
• shiner
• Dead minnows
• Caught with shiners purchased down the street at Arlington Bait and Tackle
• Friend: medium shiners rigged 2 feet below the bobber. Fish weren't hitting anything high.
  
  Me: Pumpkinseed Gary Yamamoto Senko rigged Texas and whacky.
• 5 Tip Ups- Shiners

Topwater Bait Check Prices

• Purple Flash Popper
• basic top water pencil popper type lure.
• good ole fashioned jitter bug
• Booyah Pad Crasher brown yellow top
• 3.5inch Jitterbug (arbogast)
• 3inch Black Jitterbug
• Black Jitterbug
• Jitterbug
• 3/8 jointed Jitterbug in black.
• Rapala SkitterPop 7 in brown frog

Lizard Check Prices

• Red/Red
• This one was taken using a plastic blue salamnder, rigged texas style.
• Berkley 5" Power Lizard - Green Pumpkin
• I was using Daiwa Lexa spinning Rod Pflueger Supreme XT reel with 50lb Braid with a Zoom Purple Lizard .
• Chartruese Lizard, weedless rig
• 8" Pumpkinseed
• green w/ red fleck
• Plastic Yum salamander. Rigged weedless.
• Lizard on a 1/8 oz Round Head jig
• 6 inch Zoom watermelon rigged mini carolina w/ 1/4 oz tube weight

Jerk Bait Check Prices

• baby bass berkley slug
• red 5" Senko
• 4.5in Slug-go - Arkansas Shad
• 4.5in Slug-go - Tennessee Shad
• Senko, 5", green with red specks.
• 10" and 11-3/4" 14oz Smallies
• 6" on inline spinner
  3/4lb and 1/2lb on jerkbait
• 1st was 13" 1lb
  2nd was 6"
• Sluggo
• 4.5in Slug-go - Rainbow Trout

Fly (Other) Check Prices

• Green Popper Frog Fly
• Berkley PowerBait
  1" Power Honey Worms
  
• Again Dat food( shrimplies and gold) and feed corn were present. We also tried a packbait of Limeycarper, as well as bread, strawberry canned corn, and luncheon meat.
  
  

Saltwater Swimbait Check Prices

• BFG Duel Runners

Spinnerbait / Buzzbait Check Prices

• my dads was on an S.K spinnerbait.
  the one I lost was on a KVD swim jig
• Fishing rocks and open water
• Fishing shore line
• Fishing tree lines
• use orange spinner.. blue fox
• Mostly caught on shore line with a spinner bait or buzz bait
• white spinner bait with white curly tail grub
• Rebel Buzz'n Frog
• single coloroado # 5, blue w/red speckle skirt.3/8oz
• Arbogast Jitterbug and Rebel Buzz'n Frog

Frog Bait Check Prices

• Frog popper with a black body and brownish yellow skirt legs
• Spro Frog
• Koppers live target in bull frog and toad
• Southern Lure Company-Scum Frog Weedless Frog Popper
• 1 - Yum Frog
  1 - Salad Spoon
  1 - KVD Lucky Strike finesse worm
• Weedless Topwater Frog
• Southern Lure Company Scum Frog Weedless Popper
• Zman leoprd frog pattern rigged w/ 6/0 Gami hook
• 11" Bass in Senko at Dudley
  1lber on Frog at Heard
• White Boyah Pad Crasher. I hopped it in with jerks.

Streamer Check Prices

• Thomas's buoyant spoon
  woolly bugger
  Honey worm
• Chart/White clouser

Stick Bait Check Prices

• slow action on jerkbait long pauses
• RC jerkbait did most of the heavy lifting. It caught 7 0f the 8 bass 5 of the 7 pickles and 1 sunnie.
  
  Also caught a bass on a spinnerbait and 2 pickles on a minus
• seinko 5" junebug purple
• Jerkbait
• Jerkbait
  1st was 7in
  2nd was 10-1/4in 6oz
  3rd was 12-1/2in 9oz
• Jerkbait - Both were about the same size
• rapala
• a lot of plastic worms work out.
• Rapala F05 bleeding copper flash
• I was using a green pumpkin/watermelon senko

Dry Fly Check Prices

• black and while bivisble about size 16

In-Line Spinner Check Prices

• mepps agalia
• Gold spinner
• Panther Martin
• Rooster Tail
• Rooster Tail spinner, light brown.
• silver in-line spinner with red feather
• #3 White Mepps Black Fury Spinner.
• rooster tail
• 1/8 oz. Rooster Tail
• 1/8oz Rooster Tail

Saltwater Jig Check Prices

Worm Check Prices

• Zoom watermelon seed. Had a little luck with the finese worm but found that larry was bitting the fat centipede sized one more.
• Gary Yamamoto senko
  black w large blue flakes
• green pumkin senko
• GY senko rootbeer
• Senko - black with blue flakes
• black blue fleck senko
• Pumpkinseed Senko, Watermelon Senko
• Yamamoto Senko, Black with Red flakes
• purple senko
• Zoom Finese Worm(Brown) on Shaky Head

Plastic Swimbait Check Prices

• Storm Shad Minnow
• 6" Black Powerbait worm on a weighted Jig head
• Rapala- minnow like colors, 2.5"
• xps swimbait
• Hopefully this strikeKing jointed swimbait catches me something other than bass this
  season
• 4 1/2" Shadalicous Sexy Shad &
  Bluegill Bandit 100 Crankbait
• Modeled after a baby yellow perch
• Skippyfish 4" Alewife Shad
• lake fork live magic shad in watermelon pearl
• Storm shad mullet color

Hard Baits Check Prices

• 3 Bass all between 7in-8in on a Jerkabait, Rooster Tail, and Finnesse Worm
• Inline Spinner & Jerkbait
  1st was 7in
  2nd was 12in 7oz
  3rd was 10in
  4th was 11-1/2in 9oz
• MS Slammer 7" Perch
  Buzzjet Real Largemouth
  Rage Eeliminator Watermelon Red
  KVD Swim Jig Bluegill
  Green Pumpkin Brush Hog
• Crank and buzzbait
• Inline Spinner, and Jerkbait all in the 6"-8" range
• Inline Spinner on the 8"
  Popper for the 12" 3-4lb, 1/2lb, 9"
• All between 6" & 9"
• Jerk bait, slash bait, jig, crankbait, rat-l-trap
• 1 on BBZ-1 Shad floating swimbat, Wicked Perch color.
  1 on 1/2 oz black Strike King Bi-Buzz.
• 2 on F-5 Rapala Floater
  2 on Rooster Tail

Soft Baits Check Prices

• We used a variety of dark-colored soft plastics
• Dropshot
• Drop Shot
• 1 Keeper barely 12"
  The rest were in the 8"-11"range
• Tube, Drop Shot, Senko
  1st was a little over a 1lb
  2nd was 12"
  3rd was 2lbs 2oz
• Jig, Dropshot, Tube, Senko all about 11"
• 2 keepers - 2lbs. and 1-1/2lb
  The rest were in the 8"-11" range
• Chatterbait, Swimbait, Jig, Dropshot
  My Limit was 2lb 6oz, 2lb 5oz, 1lb 11oz, 1lb 7oz, and 1lb 6oz
  
  what didn't make the cut:
  two 1lb 6oz
  half a dozen between 1-1/4lb & 1lb
  one 14oz
  one short
• Swimbait, Chatterbait, Jig, Dropshot
  
  Best 5 was about 8-3/4lbs (4.29lbs, two 1-1/4lbers, two 1lbers)
  
  
• Five 2lbers
  Ten between 1-3/4lbs and 1lb

Roundhead Jig Check Prices

• 1/32oz chartreuse and white eagle claw jig with white Berkeley honey worm.
• 1/16oz chartreuse and white eagle claw jig with a red Berkeley honey worm.
• first bass caught on a jig as i haven't used them much. spent the day practicing working at it.

Lure (Other) Check Prices

• Fishing live target Minnow jerk bait
• Powerbait
• Powerbait - Garlic scented (green)
• Rooster Tail
• Rapala Original #7
• Rapala F-5 Original
• Rapala F-7 Original Silver
• bleeding hook rapala floater
• Rooster Tail
  Rapala F-5 Original
• I got my 6in. on a Rooster Tail.
  Chris got his 12in on Spinner Bait

Craw Check Prices

• nihcolas got 3 on a perch rapala. i got 4 on a crawdad.
• brownish red 3-1/4 inch yamamoto crawdad
• doesn't look it in the pic, but he was 15 inches.
• yamamoto watermelon crawdad
• Blue/black Gary Yamamoto
• Crafish plastic on a 1/4 ounce jighead
• crawdads and soft frogs
• Gary Yamamoto 3.75" Watermelon with Black Flake Baby Craw on a 1/8 oz Boag Hog Baits ball head jig.
• Weighted Texas rigged soft craw
• Texas rigged craw !/2 ounce red tungsten weight/red hook

Hard Swimbait Check Prices

• 3" Rebel silver minnow - works really well here.
• Yozuri floating minnow. About 4-5 inches in length, gold color.
• 1 on BBZ-1 Shad floating swimbait, Wicked Perch color
• Rapala Jerkbait
• Small blue and white Rat-L-Trap.
• Once again 2" Rapala Baby Bass Jointed Swimbait
• SPRO BBZ1
• Baby Bass Rapala Dive To Bait
• If your going for Larry, you should use a large swimmer bait that only he will hit
• I used Rapala Jointed Baby Bass 2".

Saltwater Hard Bait Check Prices

• metal lures deadly dicks and 3 oz. metal mackerel jigs.

Jigs Check Prices

• 3lb 2oz was my only contribution to our limit.
  
  Everything else was 1-1/4lbs or smaller for me
• 11" on Shaky Head
  15-1/2in 1lb 9oz on Jig
• Our Limit was :
  My 3.26lbs, 3lber, 1lb 6oz, 1lb 2oz, and Chucks 1lb 5oz
  
  1lb and under on the rest
• jig n pig
• Nice Bass on the Ice Jig
• 6 Perch on the Ice Jig all between 1/2lb and 1/4lb
• Ice Jig

Crankbait Check Prices

• - White (Bass Pro)
  
  - Yellow and gold, shiny, resembles a Yellow Perch (Bass Pro).
• Strike King KVD Shad/Purple Square Bill Shallow Running Crankbait (Not exact name)
• slow slow slow presentation
• switched between crankbaits and yums. only crankbaits working today.
• 3 nice calicos. all on rapalas
• Most fish caught on a j9 bronze color but did get a few on soft plastics and the biggest on a hollow body swim-bait.
• j9 black/gold
• strike pro
• Lucky Craft, Rick Clunn edition
  2.5
• was slowly fishing a deep crank that floats letting it float to top after each crank then BANG these little suckers came right up on it

Bass Jig Check Prices

• Strike King Bass Jig
• Strike King 1/4oz Brown football jig.
  
  YUM Swimming Shad soft plastic Brown/White
• Jig and pig dragged over deeper boulders. Also cuaght fish witha small jerkbait and a shallow crank.
• Jigs and frogs in the wood and pads
• Threw a black on black 1/4 jig and #11 pork frog in the trees and a Koppers live target frog in the scum and pads
• Hooked up but lot fish on KVD swim jig, dad caught one on strike king spinnerbait.
• manns stone 3/8 jig
• JIG N PIG
  4"-6" SLUG-O PERCH COLR
  WACKY RIG PUMPKIN SPANKY WORM.
• White Jig w/ White Twin Tail Grub Trailer
• Strike King KVD swim jig with a BPS Tourney Special swimbait trailer.

Emerger Check Prices

• Spinner bait - strike king

Soft Swimbait Check Prices

• 5" and 6" Senko
• Yamamoto 5" Senko watermelon limited edition
• 2” Strom Wildeye Live Crappie
• Gary Yamamoto 3" Watermelon Senko with black and red flakes, fished weightless Texas rigged.
• IMITATION minnow small works create on slow steady retrieve with short pauses
• Storm 2in Perch
• Scince I was out of worms and lizards, I resorted to a small plastic minnow equipped with a shiner.
• 3 keepers, one was culled
• Only keeper was just over a pound
• Panther Martin Holographic Minnows Rainbow Trout 3/8 oz.

Wet Fly Check Prices

• White Wooly bugger
• White wooly bugger
• Olive wooly bugger

Casting & Trolling Spoon;22 Check Prices

• "Five of Diamonds" Eppinger Dardevle
• Gold Johnson's Silver minnow 1/8oz
• 1/6oz Thomas’ buoyant spoons
• Red and White Eppinger Dardevle
• regular silver spoon
• "5 of Diamonds" Eppinger Dardevle
• gold little cleo
• Golden 1/4 oz little cleo
• 1/4 oz gold kastmaster
• Al's goldfish (cooper 3/16 oz)

Lipless Bait Check Prices

• rattler
• Sexy Shad, White belly & blue back
• Shad Rattlin' Rapala
• Rapala Rattlin' Baby Bass
• the bass are waiting for bait fish to emerge from stream and were nailing lipless and regular crankbaits. also caught one on a spinner
• we both used rattlers all night. first time we have used them for a good length of time and tonight they were working.
• smokey joe colored lipless rattletrap
• Greyish, green, red face
• Lipless crank baits and spinner baits
• All fish on Strike King lipless crank bait; either Shad or silver

Nightcrawler Check Prices

• Float nightcrawlers off the bottom.
• Floated a nightcrawler off the bottom.
• Floating off the bottom, egg sinker and 16" leader.
• nice large nightcrawlers
• Nightcrawlers, trouworms, some lure I lost, and a Rapala floating minnow in gold
• night crawlers are now my favorite live bait.
• night crawlers and worms get the fish bitting.
• we used live worms it worked very well
• live worm on float
• Kids materials

Saltwater Baits Check Prices

• Calms
• Clams
• Clams on 5/0 circle hook on slider rig 5oz pyramid weight

Jigging Spoon Check Prices

• Gold Johnson silver minnow.
  
  Catch and release.
• medium speed

Topwater Bait (Popper, Plug) Check Prices

• Popper Fishing
• Caught on Lucky craft Sammy, spinnerbaits, and 9ers umbrella rigs.
• My Personal best this season. This Hawg nearly ripped the rod out of my hands!!!
• Popper fishing off the boat
• Popper fishing

Blade Bait Check Prices

• I made bottle Caps, Gold from beers...
• chartruce and whit chatter bait

Grub Check Prices

• Yellow Grubs from Walmart with Brown weighted jig heads. Also caught one on a purple ribbontail on a Texas rig.
• Pumpkin tail carolina style
• Orange & yellow curl tail grub
• T-rig Kalin's Lunker Grub in bluegill
• Dropshotting
• 20 in the 6"-8" range were relentless all day!
• Gary Yamamoto Skirted Double Tail Grub in Watermelon Black/Gold.
• Berkley white grub with a tail.
• Caught the little one on a black grub. The decent one took a live sunfish.
• Berkley White Grub.

Live Baits Check Prices

• white rooster tail
• Fresh Cut Pogies
• Seaworms
• Sea Worms
• Dough Ball

Panfish Jig Check Prices

• ice jig tipped with tiny plastic grub
• Drifting the jig in 6-10 feet of water
• Bright yellow, fuzzy and small.
• 2 inch bps grub on a little jighead.
• 2" soft plastic crawfish jig with #1 spinner

Other Check Prices

• Berkley Gulp Alive floating salmon eggs (yellow)
• Fresh-cut fish, chicken liver, hot dogs, dead shiners
• Berkley Gulp Alive artificial salmon eggs (yellow) on an egg sinker (sliding) rig.
• Powerbait
• Sweetcorn
• White Berkely Honey worm
• Power bait
• Yellow power eggs
• Rainbow powerbait
• yellow power eggs